Assessment of Water quality characteristics of soda water

• Poll Res 29 (2): 289-294 (2010)

• Mahadevan Komath and P.S. Harikumar , CWRDM, Kozhikode

• Abstract: The present paper deals with the study of water quality of branded and locally available soda water. The soda water samples collected from different places of Calicut city were subjected to physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis. The parameters analyzed were pH, electrical conductivity, color, turbidity, hardness, chlorides, iron, sulphate, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphate-p, fluoride, total coliforms, feacal coliform and E. coli. The samples were also subjected to heavy metal analysis. 66% of branded soda samples and 50% of locally available soda water meet the carbonated water specifications recommended by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Lehar, the branded soda water recorded a high total dissolved solids of 560mg/L and chloride value of 388 mg/L. Rich well showed high value of 0.2830 mg/L and 0.1350 mg/L with regard to copper and lead respectively.